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Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 3709.

  • Sydney Smith Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Edmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Juvenal Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Joan Didion Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • John Morley Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Thornton Wilder Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bill Gurley Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Irwin Corey Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
    Irwin Corey
     
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Al Goldstein Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Helen Rowland Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • William Wycherley Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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